Muscala v. Wirtjes’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2010
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on First National Bank of Mankato v. Wilson · Millett v. Pearson · Clark v. Dewey · Quehl v. Peterson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the owner shall cease to occupy such homestead for more than six consecutive months the owner shall be deemed to have abandoned the same unless, within such period, the owner shall file with the county recorder of the county in which it is situated a notice, executed, witnessed, and acknowledged as in the case of a deed, describing the premises and claiming the same as the owner's homestead. In no case shall the exemption continue more than five years after such filing, unless during some part of the term the premises shall have been occupied as the actual dwelling place of the debtor or the debtor’s family.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the homestead exemption is lost after six months [of absence from physical occupancy] unless the person has filed [the notice contemplated by Minn.Stat. § 510.07], no matter what the person’s intention [as to resuming occupancy in the future].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“house owned and occupied by a debtor as the debtor's dwelling place, together with the land upon which it is situated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.